Yok

Fabulist Davys concludes the Mollisan Town quartet that began with 2007’s Amberville with four long stories that reflect familiar fairy tales or fables as seen through the fun-house prism of the author’s imagination. Mollisan Town, a place with all the faults and divisions of a modern city, is inhabited solely by living stuffed animals that have the same strivings as humans. In “Sors,” Dragon Aguado Molina gives Fox Antonio Ortega, handsome but not very bright, three nearly impossible tasks he must perform to win the hand of his daughter, Beatrice Cockatoo. In “Pertiny,” Eric Gecko lives a life of drudgery and abuse supporting his older brothers, Leopold Leopard and Rasmus Panther, until he unexpectedly gets a chance to win the prize they covet the most. In “Corbod,” Mike Chimpanzee finds rock and roll fame and fortune fleeting, yet when he uncorks a genie, he finds it impossible to formulate three wishes. In “Mindie,” Vincent Hare seeks the meaning of life and has a race with Diego Tortoise. Davys imbues his stuffed animal world with a dark edge that eschews happily ever after endings. Agent: Susanna Einstein, Einstein Thompson. (Aug.)